Sunday 15 July 2012

Happy Rembrandt Day! Remember that will you...

Today we remember Alois Alzheimer, the man who first described the disease we now know as Alzheimer's way back in 1906. But it was on this day(ish) in 1910 that a fellow by the name of Emil Kraepelin gave it the name in his book Clinical Psychiatry (1910). It's thanks to these two gentlemen that we have a name for the affliction so many suffer from.

On a brighter note we can all say Happy 406th Birthday to Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. You clever painter you.

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